Willow Avalon

One Liner: Cutesy country with too much tremolo affectation for my tastes

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but country, Americana
Home: NYC (via rural Georgia)

Sunday.

Thoughts: First impression was that this is pretty enjoyable little country stuff, but I have to say that the tremolo that she adds to her voice in a lot of these songs makes me really annoyed.  I can't stand when Post Malone does that stuff, and it is creating the same feeling here.  Just sing the damn note. 

No Wikipedia, but for some reason there is a two-page word document that just downloaded to my computer with a very in depth biography of her.  She's from rural Georgia, and her first word was apparently Elvis.  She taught herself guitar at age 12, left home at 15, and briefly lived in her car.  She now lives in NYC, but when she was 14 she earned an opening gig for the Drive By Truckers in Athens, GA, which is a pretty big deal. "Willow gained overnight fame via a massively viral late-2022 video in which she gave a tour of her apartment, showing off her now-departed pet possum Bowie (whom Willow often dressed in sweaters and cowboy hats) along with such thrifted treasures as a set of medical encyclopedias from the ’40s, a Stainer violin with a rattlesnake tail stuck inside, and the antique typewriter on which she writes many of her lyrics."  I couldn't find that video on YouTube, which is too bad.

One album, 2024's Stranger, and then a 2024 EP as well called Country Never Leaves.  The early hit single, which ended up on the album, is called "Drivin'" and has 5.2 million streams.

I get no country vibes in there at all, just more like a Stevie Nicks thing.  That is definitely an outlier compared to the rest of her tunes, which are more directly country for sure.  The biggest streamer overall is from the new album, "Tequila or Whiskey" with 6.5 million streams.

Yeah, it's fine.  The vocal affectation is still really bothersome to me, but otherwise it's a cutesy little number that gets my head bobbing.  I don't think I'd go see this one though.